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Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"?

Because there's plenty of slang that doesn't inhibit use of the word by its earlier definition. Nobody blinks when you ask for a "box". Teenagers might giggle at Dick's stores, but it hasn't hurt business.

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

It's not a desperately common term though in the UK any more. ... when you say faggot - are you talking about the delicious spiced meatballs, or the piece of fire-wood?

maybe i'm turning into my parents but i think we stopped calling them spiced meatballs in the 90s

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #21
post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"? Because there's plenty of slang that doesn't inhibit use of the word by its earlier definition. Nobody blinks when you ask for a "box". Teenagers might giggle at Dick's stores, but it hasn't hurt business.

Not British, but Irish, where it's got the same meaning (It would be seen as the inverse of "straight", but always derogatory)

> to what degree?

Less and less.

a) homophobic slurs have become generally less acceptable

b) US cultural influence makes people more aware of multiple meanings

c) Futurama is also a thing that people here are aware exists / fans of

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #21
post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"? Because there's plenty of slang that doesn't inhibit use of the word by its earlier definition. Nobody blinks when you ask for a "box". Teenagers might giggle at Dick's stores, but it hasn't hurt business.

I'm not sure what we'd call a thing that bends (I suppose it would depend on what is being bent and how), but bender is pretty much exclusively used to mean a gay person or a very drunken night.

I agree that it doesn't inhibit its use as a product name though. Git seems to be doing just fine.

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #21
post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"? Because there's plenty of slang that doesn't inhibit use of the word by its earlier definition. Nobody blinks when you ask for a "box". Teenagers might giggle at Dick's stores, but it hasn't hurt business.

I'm not really "down with the kids", but I would think most people in their twenties and thirties and older would definitely understand "bender" to mean a homosexual, and "on a bender" to mean "out getting drunk" (though this isn't a derogatory term in any particular sense). I don't think I've ever used the word "bender" to mean "thing that bends", but perhaps that's just because of the other meaning of the term here.

I don't think "box" is understood at all in the UK to mean what it does in US slang, though we do use the word in the context of cricket to mean something quite specific!

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

That and 'going on a bender', that being going out and drinking (or otherwise becoming intoxicated) excessively over a long period of time.

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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Why would you want to run this on iOS?

I dont know much about parallel or distributed computing but here's an idea. If this framework supports multi gpus with data parallelisem, model parallelisem or some hybrid and you can entice people to download ir by packaging it over a game or visualization layer a la Folding@Home, youd essentially have it running at a very large scale without having to pay for any compute power

Let's go into business together mining coin on people's iPhones.

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Well, the British slang for cigarette is "fag", which is derogatory in the US, so call it even?

Re: Show HN: Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

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post #11

I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender

Perhaps this is part of the way that language heals over time. It's much better to associate this term with Futurama and ML than bigotry. And the name makes contextual sense as well.
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